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Nov 13, 2012 at 5:55 PM

Republicans who argue that the two elections in which Barack Obama won the presidency were just flukes are fooling themselves more than anyone else.

The GOP’s problems in the Electoral College go back 20 years, despite George W. Bush’s two narrow victories, and seem likely to continue.

Chris Cillizza EXPLAINS:

Amid all of the agita and hand-wringing about the campaign Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney ran, the reality is that the former Massachusetts governor was operating on an in­cred­ibly narrow electoral map that made his only path to victory something close to a total sweep of the most closely ...

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Republicans who argue that the two elections in which Barack Obama won the presidency were just flukes are fooling themselves more than anyone else.

The GOP’s problems in the Electoral College go back 20 years, despite George W. Bush’s two narrow victories, and seem likely to continue.

Chris Cillizza EXPLAINS:

Amid all of the agita and hand-wringing about the campaign Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney ran, the reality is that the former Massachusetts governor was operating on an in­cred­ibly narrow electoral map that made his only path to victory something close to a total sweep of the most closely ...